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Definitions: Entree |
EntreeNoun1. The principal dish of a meal. 2. The right to enter. 3. Something that allows access (entry or exit); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral". 4. The act of entering; "she made a graceful entree into the ballroom". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "entree" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
Synonyms: EntreeSynonyms: access (n), admittance (n), entrance (n), entranceway (n), entry (n), entryway (n), main course (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree. |
Main course, entree. | |
Ingress | Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into. |
Reception | Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food). |
Noun: reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking; (food); insertion; interjection; introit. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Entree |
| English words defined with "entree": Fricando. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Entree" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (access, accession, admission, admittance, entrance, portal). |
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 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 18. Entree dans l'interieur de banquise, le 4 Fevrier 1838. Parages Antarctiques. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 6. Entree des forets de la Riviere Sedger. Detroit de Magellan. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 50. Entree de la Baie Anna Maria. Nouka-Hiva. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | A Christmas catastrophe : please, sir, the rat entree has escaped and eaten the turkey.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Trade | Indonesia | Indonesia also has several bonded zones or areas that are designated as entree ports for export destined production (EPTE). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Entree" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Entree" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
care entree | 163 | entree trattoria | 2 |
entree | 81 | d entree ile | 2 |
entree libre | 10 | 712 entree libre rc | 2 |
entree recipe | 9 | care complaint entree | 2 |
entree express | 6 | entree recipe salad | 2 |
entree network | 4 | entree mexican recipe | 2 |
vegetarian entree | 4 | entree salad | 2 |
entree magazine | 3 | entree nature | 2 |
800 entree libre rc | 3 | aide concours entree soignant | 2 |
care entree health care plan | 3 | chicken entree recipe | 2 |
entree recipe vegetarian | 2 | care entree insurance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "entree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | لون من الطعام, الطبق الرئيسي بالطعام, دخول (admittance, entrance, entry, ingress). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 进入 (Enter, Entered, Entering, ingress). (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | مدخل (Access, Entrance, Entry, Estuary, Gate, Gateway, Portal), ورود (Accession, Arrival, Entrance, Entry, Influx, Inning), غذای اصلی (Meat), اجازه ء ورود (Admission), دخول (Accession, Admission, Arrival, Entry, Inclusion). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | húsos fogás. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "su", crayfish, existence, heavy rainfall, hors d'oeuvres, pomelo, rope, sauerkraut, seed, Seidel, shaddock, that's all, that's O.K., that's right, the, Zaire, Zambia, Zamenhof), アンデス山脈 (ampersand sign, and, Andes, android, Andromeda, antonym, entrepreneurship, independents, undead, undo). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ザクースカ (hors d'oeuvres), アントレ (entrepreneurship). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 앙트 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | eddyr-choorse. (various references) | ||||||||||
Norwegian | hovedrett. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | entreeay право входа (entrance, entrйe). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Kings Chapter 11, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epeqhkan auth ceiraV kai eishlqen odon eisodou twn ippwn oikou tou basilewV kai apeqanen ekei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Inposueruntque ei manus et inpegerunt eam per viam introitus equorum iuxta palatium et interfecta est ibi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei putten to hyre hondis, and stykeden hyre by the weye of the entree of the hors besyde the paleys; and sche is slayn there. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Kings Chapter 11, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Busa ilang giiwayan siya; ug siya miagi duol sa alagian sa mga kabayo ngadto sa balay sa hari: ug didto siya gipatay. |
| Chinese | 眾 兵 就 閃 開 " 他 去 ． 他 從 馬 路 上 王 宮 去 ． 便 在 那 裡 被 殺 。 |
| Croatian | Staviše ruke na nju; a kad je kroz Konjska vrata stigla do kraljevskog dvora, ondje je pogubiše. |
| Danish | Så greb de hende, og da hun ad Hesteindgangen var kommet til Kongens Palads, blev hun dræbt der. |
| Dutch | En zij leiden de handen aan haar; en zij ging den weg van den ingang der paarden naar het huis des konings, en zij werd daar gedood. |
| Finnish | Niin he kävivät häneen käsiksi, ja kun hän oli tullut tielle, jota myöten hevosia kuljetettiin kuninkaan palatsiin, surmattiin hänet siellä. |
| French | On lui fit place, et elle se rendit la maison du roi par le chemin de l`entrée des chevaux: c`est l qu`elle fut tuée. |
| German | Und sie machten ihr Raum zu beiden Seiten; und sie ging hinein des Weges, da die Rosse zum Hause des Königs gehen, und ward daselbst getötet. |
| Hungarian | És útat nyitottak néki, és õ arra az útra ment, a merre a lovakat vezetik be a király házába, és ott megölték. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka menangkap dia, lalu membawanya ke istana. Di sana ia dibunuh di depan pintu Gerbang Kuda. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ditangkap mereka itu akan dia, lalu iapun berjalanlah ke istana baginda pada jalan segala kuda dan di sanalah iapun dibunuh. |
| Italian | Le misero le mani addosso ed essa raggiunse la reggia attraverso l'ingresso dei Cavalli e l fu uccisa. |
| Maori | Heoi whakawateatia ana e ratou he ara mona; a haere ana ia i te huarahi e haere ai nga hoiho ki te whare o te kingi: a whakamatea iho ki reira. |
| Norwegian | Så gjorde de plass for henne til begge sider, og hun gikk den vei som hestene pleier å kjøre inn til kongens hus; og der blev hun drept. |
| Portuguese | E lançaram-lhe as mãos e ela foi pelo caminho da entrada dos cavalos casa do rei, e ali a mataram. |
| Rumanian | I-au fqcut loc, wi s`a dus la casa kmpqratului pe drumul pe care intrau caii: acolo a fost omorktq. |
| Swedish | Alltså grepo de henne, och när hon hade kommit till den plats där hästarna plägade föras in i konungshuset, dödades hon där. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "entree": entrees. (additional references) | |
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"Entree" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amtree, Encreve, engrelee, engry, Enry, ente, entera, enterd, enteren, entero, entery, entiry, entr, entra, entrage, entrar, entray, entre, Entred, entrep, entrer, entrez, entrie, entried, Entrim, entrine, entro, etre, extry, intre, Rentree, ventry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "entree" (pronounced Ä"ntrā') |
| 3 | -t r ā' | ashtray. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eterne, retene, teener. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: enter, rente, terne, treen. | |
-2 letters: erne, rent, rete, teen, tern, tree. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, nee, net, ree, ret, tee, ten. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: entered, enterer, entrees, externe, preteen, reenter, retenes, teeners, teenier, terpene, terreen, terrene. | |
+2 letters: cementer, centered, cerement, decenter, decentre, deferent, efferent, emergent, enervate, enfetter, enterers, eternise, eternize, extender, externes, generate, greenest, greenlet, internee, lateener, neutered, preteens, pretence, pretense, recenter, reenters, referent, relented, renested, repented, repenter, repetend, resented, retinene, returnee, revehent, reverent, serenate, serenest, teenager, teensier, tendered, tenderer, tenebrae, tentered, terebene, terpenes, terreens, terrenes, venerate, yestreen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 74 72 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - .-. . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t r e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0074 0072 0065 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398086847171 |
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